CEO Spotlight

Prescription for Success

George Barrett is pushing Cardinal Health beyond its core business of drug distribution.

Cardinal Health last year delivered almost $2 billion a week worth of drugs and medical supplies to retail pharmacies, hospitals, and surgery centers—everything from generic statins at the low end to branded cancer drugs at the high. And often it's the cheapest drugs that deliver the highest profit margins.

"In much of pharmaceutical distribution, our role is to serve the system, but we don't largely make the market," says...